THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
SCIENTIFIC MEETING
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY
Psychoanalytic Aspects of Biography Panel Discussion
Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 8:15 p.m.
Moderator:
Mary Ann Caws, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School of the
City University of New York
Panelists:
Steven Weissman, M.D.
Psychoanalyst and Author, Chaplin: A Life
Joel Whitebrook, Ph.D.
Psychoanalyst and Author, forthcoming intellectual biography of Freud
Laurie Wilson, Ph.D.
Psychoanalyst and Author, Alberto Giacometti: Myth, Magic, and the Man, and a forthcoming biography of Louise Nevelson
This panel discussion will address both some of the problems and the benefits of being a psychoanalyst and a biographer. Our three panelists are psychoanalysts who have written and/or are in the process of writing full-length biographical studies. The panel will focus on the issues that lie at the intersections between psychoanalysis and biography. In a sense, all psychoanalysts are biographers of their patients; yet authoring literary biographies of figures who are not our patients poses challenges not encountered in the clinical setting. Perhaps surprisingly, these challenges may also include those related to transference-countertransference experiences.
Join us for light refreshments from 7:30 to 8 p.m.
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